An asteroid belt or asteroid field is a collection of asteroids that usually orbit a star in a roughly toroidal shape. Asteroids in such belts range from grain-sized to many kilometers in diameter. Asteroid fields contain space debris and are usually the remains of a planet's destruction.

First OfficerSpock told his Captain, James T. Kirk, the Schiller Rating of the asteroid belt immediately before Kirk ordered the Enterprise into the region to pursue the freighter. Given the circumstances of Spock's advice, the Schiller Rating was likely a type of scale for evaluating the navigational hazards posed by such phenomena.

In 2378 and before the USS Voyager's return to Earth, it dropped off Neelix in a resource-rich asteroid field. The field also contained an asteroid that was home to a distant Talaxiancolony. Alienminers planned to harvest the ore of the Talaxians' asteroid, which would render it uninhabitable. By helping erect shield generators, Neelix prevented the bellicose miners from destroying the asteroid-colony and saved his fellow Talaxians. (VOY: "Homestead")

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